October 2010
3 posts
“Greedy people, competing, make the world go round.”
– Paul Krugman at the 2009 Ig Nobel Awards, giving his seven word description of economics. I just got back from this year’s ceremony, and the 2010 seven word lectures—sadly—weren’t nearly as good. (via jeffbridges)
September 2010
3 posts
WatchIn this Daily Show clip, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf makes a very good point: if, after all of this controversy, he backs down from building the so-called “9/11 Mosque,”* then the radicals on both sides will have won. More importantly, “the headlines in the Muslim world will be that Islam is under attack.” This would further endanger Americans both abroad and here at home, meaning at this point the...
